Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Brothers, Downtown Tampa aerial view, east from railroad sheds to Ybor, Estuary Zone, and gas storage tank Tampa, Florida, 1958. Catalog no.: PA 5858. The firm flourished during the 1920s...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...bring Ree to the freezing shallows where her father’s body has been hidden. At their direction, she pulls his corpse partly out of the water and, weeping, holds his rigid...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...to Louisiana in 1972 to teach at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, east of Baton Rouge and about sixty miles northwest of New Orleans. He brought with him his new...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...between 1994/95-2007/08. There were clear differences in growth by racial group and by district. As shown in Table 1, between 1994/95-2007/08 the number of white high schoolers in the six...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...would follow religiously till their last breath. While the fear of miscegenation between black and white had remained the driving force behind Helper's abolitionist rhetoric, the union between Asian and...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...conduct interviews as resources became available between 2003 and 2008. Before writing questions I would often revisit the MARBL archive to re-read the letters between Raymond and each interviewee. I...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...cuts off the leg of a slave boy, and a slave woman sucks the cut-off leg. A Confederate soldier prepares for battle by sucking a slave woman's breast. A slave...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the last thirty years," she began. "He is an individual who has fought for freedom at great personal sacrifice, who has bettered the lives of tens of thousands of American...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...show up in southern West Virginia or eastern Kentucky and open factories and offices. I wrote the Commons Communities Act after months of thinking about how the people of the...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...between tradition and modernity, music and society. Sweet Air stands at the crossroads of several historiographical paths, including recent approaches in cultural studies and vernacular music history.1Comentale uses Josh Kun's...